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access icon openaccess 15-year educational experience on autonomous electronic information devices by flipped classroom and try-by-yourself methods

  • Author(s): Yoshio Mita 1  and  Yoshihiro Kawahara 2
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  • Source: Volume 11, Issue 4, July 2017, p. 321 – 329
    DOI:  10.1049/iet-cds.2016.0406 , Print ISSN 1751-858X, Online ISSN 1751-8598
This is an open access article published by the IET under the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Received 11/10/2016, Accepted 31/03/2017, Revised 28/03/2017, Published 26/04/2017

Since 2001, the departments of Electrical and Electronics and Information and Communication Electronics Engineering of Faculty of Engineering, the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) have jointly given a lecture on autonomous electronic information devices for undergraduate students. According to the on-line questionnaire, 80% of students in 2010–2012 replied that the lecture was useful for their future career. The task given to students was to design and realise an autonomous electronic information devices (so-called ‘the IoT-gadgets’) by themselves, and conduct a live demonstration in front of their colleagues. The device must have an ‘input’, ‘output’, and some ‘information processing’. Being aware of the speed of technology evolution as well as the short hours of the lecture, the professor tried not to give direct answers to students’ questions on how-to instantly build and program an information device. Instead, the students were told to beware of their ‘methods’. This refers to the deductive thinking introduced by René Descartes, and in the lecture's context how students should behave in order to realise the device. In this study, the backgrounds of various associated topics are discussed, such as the UTokyo's educational system, the world's rapid prototyping movement, open hardware, course design, students’ reactions, and future directions.

Inspec keywords: educational institutions; electronic engineering computing; computer aided instruction; further education; electronic engineering education

Other keywords: live demonstration; IoT-gadgets; try-by-yourself methods; rapid prototyping movement; undergraduate students; University of Tokyo; UTokyo educational system; information processing; open hardware; flipped classroom; technology evolution; course design; autonomous electronic information devices; students reactions

Subjects: Electronic engineering computing; Computing education and training; Computer-aided instruction; Education and training

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